Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Beneath the shores of ancient Tampa Bay, archaeologists have finally given a name to a mystery that endured for centuries. A group of migrant potters, traveling from distant lands, left behind a ceramic tradition unlike anything native to the region — and only now are we beginning to understand who they were, and why they came.
From the distant past, we turn to the present, where a congregation in North Carolina marked a singular moment in its one hundred thirty seven year history. Four hundred fifty eight people were baptized in a single day — a gathering of individual choices folding into something collective, something that quietly asks what it means to belong to something larger than oneself.
And in the corridors of media power, David Ellison is poised to take control of CNN, completing a transition that would make him one of the most influential figures in American news. Once known simply as a financier of Hollywood films, he now stands at the threshold of something far more consequential — the shaping of how millions of people understand the world around them.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
